A Cautionary Tale About Actors Wearing Prosthetic Disguises in Everyday Life from Kevin Bacon

Are you an actor so frequently besieged by admiring fans and autograph seekers that you’ve sincerely considered having a prosthetic disguise custom-made so that you can roam the streets anonymously? If so, you may want to hold off on dialing your prosthetics contact for a moment so that Kevin Bacon, another actor frequently besieged by admiring fans and autograph seekers, can tell you his cautionary tale about the time he actually went through with that plan. Per The Guardian:

I had a prosthetic disguise made, because I wanted to see what it would be like not to be recognised. I didn’t like it very much—no one was nice to me. People didn’t bother me, but they also looked right through me.

The actor is apparently so over that prosthetic-disguise experiment that, charmingly, he now rides the subway in plain view. “I take the subway every day,” Bacon toldPeoplemagazine recently. “It’s the fastest way to get around the city . . . When I’m on the train, I play Solitaire, Angry Birds, and Backgammon on my phone.” As unapologetic Kevin Bacon fans, we would sit next to Kevin Bacon on the subway regardless of whether he was wearing a hideous prosthetic disguise, although we’d prefer without. When he is not regularly riding public transportation, or talking to media about regularly riding public transportation, the actor can be seen on The Following, a new serial-killer program on Fox that has been reviewed by at least one real-life serial killer.